Gut Feeling to Mar 15 , Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun noon-5pm Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue, Lower Level free A gut feeling can hit us when looking at art. While some work takes serious contemplation, often our response is an immediate one, an instinctual feeling that tells us this is beautiful; this is ugly; this […]
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Review: Atmospheric Events is brutally soft
Atmospheric Events Daily to Nov 24 Dalhousie Art Gallery It’s hard to love a brute—at least, hard to love a Brutalist building. Severe concrete structures like the one that makes up the Dalhousie Arts Centre—home to the University’s art gallery—have fallen out of fashion. They are seen as ugly remnants of misguided 20th century socialist […]
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Stay cool with these 13 summer art exhibits
To July 14 Nature as Communities For her masters in environmental studies, Dal student Jennifer Yakamovich has been researching the role art can play in helping a cultural shift towards sustainability. Here, she plays curator as she shares a slew of results by artists from across the country, with pieces in various mediums meditating on […]
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The year in visual art
In a year commemorating many anniversaries, 2017 is a landmark, for better or for worse. And with so much political upheaval it often felt like a landmark to come, history in the making. So with a historical lens pointed in all directions, it is no surprise that some of the most interesting exhibitions reflected this […]
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Traumatic re-creation
Arthur Lismer and the 1917 Explosion: When War Came to Halifax November 23–December 17 Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue If it happened today, producers would be bidding for the film rights by noon. Instead, the Explosion in Halifax Harbour—the worst human-made disaster prior to the atomic bomb—was documented in a 75-cent paperback filled with 60 […]
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Mayann Francis and the fashion secrets of a role model
The Dress: Mayann Francis and Gary Markle in conversation Thursday, Sept. 29 The Dress: Mayann Francis and the Call to Serve To November 27 Dalhousie Art Gallery, 6101 University Avenue free Sitting on a black bench, surrounded by accent lighting that seems to add extra drama to what she’s saying, Mayann Francis is tackling big […]
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How to spend your summer in the galleries
OUT OF TOWN To June 24 YORODEO, New Findings If the air-conditioned glory of the cinema isn’t cutting it, head to CBU’s gallery for some static 3D images from Coast illustrator Paul Hammond and design partner Seth Smith. Showing their ongoing body of 3D screenprints, the works in the exhibition draw from sci-fi, fantasy and […]
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The Future is now
Tucked away in the corner of the Dalhousie Art Gallery—which is also currently housing Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?, an exhibition of artist run centre archives—is a collection of an entirely different sort of archive. Archives of the Future, organized by Centre for Art Tape’s programming committee, examines […]
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Free film screenings for African Heritage Month
To celebrate African Heritage Month, three landmark films in black cinema will be screened at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (6101 University Avenue) in the next two weeks. Curated by filmmaker and film professor Ron Foley Macdonald, the series is free (!) and open to all. Tuesday, February 2 (5pm) She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Directed, […]
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Review: Anatomica
The attendant sat wordlessly at his desk as I entered the gallery. Each footstep took me further from the outside world and moved me through an eerie place of dimly lit corners, ghostly voices and uncanny objects. A tall pile of porcelain femur bones dominates one wall, slices of paper-quilled dissected bodies rest in glass […]
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Buy Locavore
Take a trip down memory lane in Locavore: Works from the NSCAD Community in the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection. The comprehensive exhibit covers more than 100 years of Haligonian artwork from former NSCAD students and instructors. The exhibit begins with “Untitled Landscape” from Edith A. Smite, a student in the late 1880s and former […]
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Let them Howl
Take in an interactive opera experience and check out Howl at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. Howl is definitely unlike any opera you’ve experienced before, with three 20-minute mini-operas all loosely based on the Allen Ginsberg poem of the same name. Soprano Janice Jackson sings the part of three worlds, which were individually written by three […]